Mario Serrano-Losada graduated from the University of Salamanca in 2010 with a BA in Spanish, and again in 2012 with a BA in English. He also received an MA in Lexis and Communication from the University of Barcelona in 2011, and carried out research at the same university (Department of Hispanic Philology) the following year, on a postgraduate grant. In March 2013 he moved to the University of Santiago de Compostela to work under contract to the VLCG team and prepare a PhD on evidentiality and mirativity in English and Spanish, under the supervision of Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya. In December 2013 he was awarded a three-year I2C postgraduate grant (ref. PRE/2013/206) from the Directorate General for University Policy of the Regional Government of Galicia, and in June 2014 he obtained a four-year FPU grant (ref. FPU13/02618; 20/12/2013-19/12/2017) from the
Spanish Ministry of Education.

In 2007-2008 Mario studied at Trinity College Dublin as an ERASMUS exchange student. In 2010 he took an intensive two-month German course in Berlin, under funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He has also studied cello at the conservatories of Ponce, in Puerto Rico (1998-2002), Mérida (2002-2003) and Salamanca (2003-2007). As a visiting scholar he has stayed at the Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven, carrying out research under the supervision of Hendrik De Smet (September-December 2015), and at the Department of English of the University of Amsterdam, where his tutor was Olga Fischer (September-December 2016). In September 2017 he attended the competitive 2017 SLE Summer School at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

Mario has presented papers at both national and international conferences, and has experience in the organization of research meetings, such as the conference Mapping language across cultures: Textual analysis in cross-cultural and intercultural communication (MLAC10), University of Salamanca, July 2010. He is Assistant Editor of Open Linguistics, a new
academic peer-reviewed journal published online by De Gruyter Open, and serves on the Editorial Board of the online Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (John Benjamins Publishing Company). Since 2015 he has been on the Executive Board (currently as Vice-President) of AJIHLE, the Association of Young Researchers in Historiography and History of the Spanish Language, and is Associate Editor (‘Director Adjunto’) of its online journal Res Diachronicae Virtual.

10-13 September 2017:50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Zurich:

"A paradigm in the making: On the emergence of mirative verbs and the role of analogy"

“Assumed evidential expressions with verba dicendi: Evidence from English and French” [second author, with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez]

24-28 May 2017: ICAME 38 (Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Charles University in Prague: "Needless to say and goes without saying: Diachronic and synchronic considerations" [second author, with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez].

4-5 April 2017: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English, KU Leuven: “The emergence of mirative end up and the role of analogy”.

18-21 September 2016: 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE4), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland): "Ends up, I'm not a very good writer: On the grammaticalization of mirative parenthetical ends up in American English".

2-5 September 2015: 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (The Netherlands): "Needless to say and evidential expressions in English and Spanish: a diachronic corpus-based study" [second author, with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez].

27-31 July 2015: 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22), University of Naples Federico II (Italy):

"A diachronic inquiry into English turn out and Spanish resultar mirative constructions: A case of ongoing grammaticalization?"

"A cross-linguistic study of evidential parentheticals in English, French and Spanish: Needless to say and related expressions" [first author, with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez]

6-8 October 2014: International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL’14), Universidad Complutense de Madrid: "Raising turn out in late Modern English: The rise of a mirative construction".

22-24 May 2014: 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2014), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: "Learned syntax and grammaticalization: Evidence from Spanish".

18-19 October 2013: Englishes Today 2013. Theoretical and Methodological Issues, University of Vigo: "Element-final like in Hiberno-English: Notes on its pervasiveness, frequency and distribution".

18-20 July 2013: III International Conference on Meaning Construction, Meaning Interpretation: Applications and Implications (CRAL 2013), University of La Rioja: "Pictorial metaphor and metonymy at work: The case of painkiller advertising".